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by TMWNN 2y ago
>but there's no physical limit preventing them from being discovered, and the disruption when someone invents a new algorithm can be nearly immediate. The rise of the net is Jevons paradox fulfilled. The orders of magnitude less ban
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by TMWNN 2y ago
I hadn't thought about the DeepSeek angle. But yes, I would say that in general, any data coming out of China ought to be viewed with the assumption that it has been massaged, especially since China itself probably does not know the t
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Xi Jinping Muzzles Chinese Economist Who Dared to Doubt GDP Numbers(wsj.com)
9 points by TMWNN 2y ago|7 comments
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Trump is searching for potential TikTok buyers – who are the likely contenders?(cnbc.com)
1 points by TMWNN 2y ago|0 comments
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>except that US economy relies heavily of on cheap labor of illegal immigrants who pay more in taxes than most americans By this logic the US ought to import anyone anywhere to enter and work in the US, in endless numbers, without limit,
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by TMWNN 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voSpOrimkMY
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by TMWNN 2y ago
My "favorite" story: BART Withholding Surveillance Videos Of Crime To Avoid 'Stereotypes' < https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/09/bart-withholdin... >
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by TMWNN 2y ago
Thank you for the clarification. That said, the example (pun unintended) I replied to is in the context of email, not HTTP.
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by TMWNN 2y ago
Actually it does, especially in the context of the rest of what I wrote: >Certainly there has been no shortage of gay people among his top-level appointees in either his first or second administrations.
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by TMWNN 2y ago
My "favorite" bit of misinformation about the Capitol riot (out of so, so many) is about Donald Trump Jr. For many, many months prosecutors and the media talked about him as being an unindicted co-conspirator, and how that that Ni
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>For me it's watching a gay man grovel at the feet of one of the most anti-LGBT politicians Besides what ImJamal said, as a wealthy playboy man-about-town hanging out at Studio 54 in the '70s and '80s, I guarantee Trump ha
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by TMWNN 2y ago
> Do you find that it actually generates varied and diverse stories? Or does it just fall into the same 3 grooves? > Last week I tried to get an LLM (one of the recent Llama models running through Groq, it was 70B I believe) to produc
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>(No @example.com) The example.{com,org,net} domain was created for this purpose, of a valid but not real domain.
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by TMWNN 2y ago
That precedent has always existed. The US banning TikTok changed nothing from a legal standpoint.
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by TMWNN 2y ago
It's still a very valid solution. I used S/KEY for years when I wanted to log into a remote system from a machine I didn't control. I didn't care so much about keystrokes being intercepted; I did care about my password b
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by TMWNN 2y ago
Seeing a rocket land vertically goes against almost 70 years of what we "know" about rockets. Falcon 9 rockets landing on legs seem unnatural enough; now we have a rocket, the size of a 20-story building, landing on chopsticks. Th
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>What a strangely beautiful sight. "My god, Bones, what have I done?"
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by TMWNN 2y ago
World is healing
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by TMWNN 2y ago
> They are still selling in 2025 an Android 11 device whose last update is from 2022. Further, there was a beta test update just last month.
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>Microsoft of course couldn't compete with an "Xbox 2" vs a "PS3", and they couldn't skip right to "Xbox 3" Nope, it all goes back to Microsoft not naming the 360 "Xbox 3" with some lame
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by TMWNN 2y ago
A social media site is not like a company that makes widgets. The latter's profits scale linearly with the number of widgets sold. A website's costs do not scale linearly (at least, not in the same way) with the number of users; m
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by TMWNN 2y ago
I read an interesting point recently: Austria's 100 wealthiest families have two thirds of the country's wealth, and none has earned their money from technology; they've all inherited it. How different would the same list b
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>I think something like 8/18B revenue (mostly ads) this year is from US. So it's subtantial, but 10B is not chomp change A social media site is not like a company that makes widgets. The latter's profits scale linearly wit
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>Could provinces do it? Yes. The Canadian Supreme Court's Re Secession legalized secession. More info: < https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/tkg5gf/who_has... >. >They are not
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>Regardless of existing US citizens not getting offered 1MM, what does the regular citizen get if Greenland were to join I wonder? They get * Enhanced national security * Long-term tax revenue from mining and other natural resources
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>Someone needs to point out Puerto Rico as an example of how they'll be treated. Puerto Rico and USVI are the wealthiest places in the Caribbean. >Also, Guam and other US territories. The US pacific island territories are, again,
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by TMWNN 2y ago
> If Greenland votes to join the U.S., they will get a reservation and the U.S. will get the minerals. Ask the Inuit in Alaska. You mean the Inuit who benefit from federally set up native corporations? < https://en.wikipedia
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by TMWNN 2y ago
vkou is correct. The US freight rail system is the best and cheapest in the world, and has a larger share of freight shipping than in other countries. < https://archive.is/20240502094047/https://www.economis
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by TMWNN 2y ago
Among the rescuers was "Dennis Whiles", actually George Gärtner, < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Gaertner > the last German prisoner of war in the United States.
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by TMWNN 2y ago
>I don't charge any handling so it's just whatever the raw shipping cost that is calculated by Shopify/USPS/etc. What amatecha said about brokerage fees is true, but only if you use international ground (UPS Standard,

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